1. High time to actually take my career off the ground. Can only talk big for so long, met a producer and we are talking so we will see what happens. 
2. Started a new job and no time to be honest and takes a lot of time out of the day 
3. The real reason is basically loss of interest in Telugu cinema. I remember having a conversation with Pranav before we did our 150th episode for Malliswari and he told me he’s losing interest. I thought he was joking and I was like I could never, but turns out he was 100% right and I have lost interest as well. TFI’s banisas and fans will do their best to continue watching but the overall interest has waned. Reason being nobody is making movies anymore, it’s all brain rot to satisfy their fans and lack of commercial directors as well evolving of what people call commercial cinema has changed but main thing is there is no writing, and there is no passion 
4. I realized that having the nostalgia about telugu cinema is actually dangerous because it’s affecting my mental health and making me wonder why nobody can make good movies anymore but the truth is Telugu cinema is finished and that time is over 
5. We made two episodes last year and we explained why things suck right now and It’s basically the same or has gotten worse. 
6. Nowadays cant even have expectations anymore so in reality its just the current state of telugu movies. When you dont like anything, what’s the point of watching 
7. Its become a toxic relationship so why would you want to stay in one? It’s not giving anything in return and only making you feel bad. Such is the current state of telugu cinema 
8. I neither have interest to rewatch old Telugu movies or even talk about new ones. There are many other podcasts that review current telugu movies that I advise you to listen to them instead. 
9. Perhaps I will meet you all on the small screen or big screen someday. But for the time being and likely, this podcast is over. Thanks for listening and all the memories and time. I really appreciate it. 

Credits

Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies 

Cast: Megastar Chiranjeevi, Soundarya, Anjala Zhaveri, Prakash Raj, MAster Teja Sajja, Authi Prasad, Bramanandham, MS Narayana, Brahmaji, Venu Madhav, Bandla Ganesh, Dhulipala Sitarama Sastry 

Music: Mani Sharma 

Cinematography: Chota K Naidu 

Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao 

Art Direction: Thota Tharani 

Fights: Vijayan 

Lyrics: Veturi & Chandrabose 

Choreography: Saroj Khan, Raghava Lawrence, Raju Sundaram 

Costume Design: Manish Malhotra 

Producer: C. Aswini Dutt 

Release date: August 27th, 1998 

• First title of the movie was Kaalika, alternative title Kolkata, Kolkata Kalika since its Kolkata backdrop, hence he started the movie with Kali Matha title card and credits 
• Chiranjeevi was the one who put the title Choodalani Undi 

• Coming to Railway Station scene, Gunashekar wrote about a 20 page booklet like a novel to write the scene. More action, literally no dialogues. He said it was going to be like this and he learned to write scenes from DV Natasha Raju. He told Chiru garu and he laughed and said this is a scene for Pawan Kalyan like in Tholi Prema, why are you doing it with me, because its on you its like this, for him it would be different, but lastly he enjoyed it a lot 
• Then he told Chota K Naidu and he Las got very excited bhale undi. Coming to filming of it, Aswnini Dutt suggested Ramoji Film City train station. But Gunahsekar wanted live location Nampally Railway Station with live crowd and ambiance, Aswini Dutt got shocked, taking CHiru to Nampally scene. 
• Ramoji Film. City is fine, but it has to be realistic. Dutt felt it would be very difficult. They got permission but hoe would be control the crowd and then how are we going to film it become a huge challenge. 2-3 days they had a lot of discussions about it 
• Chota K Naidu and his team perfectly planned all the lighting and camera movements etc, got all the shots ready. 
• Filmed 3 days at NAmpally and then 1 day at Kachiguda was the plan. 
• Aswini Dutt acted as a latti master as well to control the crowd 
• Finally they completed Namapally scenes in 2 days with planning and then 1 day at Kachiguda 
• Choodalanu Undi is the first Telugu movie to be filmed in Kolkata, Kolkata apartment was done in Annapurna 7 acres 
• Yamaha Nagari - Raju Sundaram, Rama Chilakamma and Oh Maria done by legendary Saroj Khan 
• Regarding the inclusion of Hariharan, Udit Narayan, Shankar MAhadevan, it was collective decision between Gunashekar and Mani Sharma. He specifically told Mani Sharma that the sounds should be new, from Iliayaraja to AR Rahman and brought a new trend of introducing new singers, composing and engineering, told him the sound should be ultimate sound should be new for audience 
• Until then only dubbing songs heard Udit Narayan, Hariharan, and Shankar Mahadevan, nobody sang straight songs in Telugu 
• Automatically first choice is Balu garu for any song, but to take it to the next level we have to use new singers for the other songs, obviously for Rama Chilakamma Chiru and Aswnini Dutt opposed Udit Narayan for it, even balu wanted to sing it, but they objected, he got angry, and then they sang it with Udit Narayan sang it and the rest is history 
• Dialogues were written by Divakar Babu, he gave him a script book, he loved writing for Chiru and Soundarya scenes, Chiru did improvisation for all their poetic conversations
• Choodalani Undi collected 12.2 crores share and just missed industry hit status, ran for 100 days in 63 centers, all time record and first Telugu movie to run in more than 60 centers for 100 days, ran for 175 days and was the first South Indian film to be covered on India Today Delhi cover page, industry record and highest grossing South Indian fllm at that point in time 
• In JyothiChitra magazine, Chota Prasad journalist asked for the 20 pages and he put the first page with his handwriting and then JoythiChitra printed the rest 
• During the 100 days function in Vijayawada, Chiru bought the entire team gold chains 

Credits

Banner: NTR Arts

Cast: Kalyan Ram, Sindhu Tonali, Prakash Raj, Asish Vidyardhi, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav, Chandra Mohan, Surya, Ajay, Ramireddy, Chalapati Rao, Ahuti Prasad, GV Sudhakar, Raghu Babu, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Devi Charan, Rajya Lakshmi, Pinky Sudeepa

Music: Mani Sharma

Dialogues: Marudhuri Raja

Lyrics: Chandrabose, Sai Sri Harsha, Chinni Charan & Bandaru Danayya

Cinematographer: C Ram Prasad

Art: P Narayana Reddy

Stunts: Stun Siva

Story - Screenplay - Direction: Surender Reddy

Producer: Janakiram Nandamuri

Theatrical release date: 7th May 2005

Interesting Facts

• After working as an assistant director for 9 years, Surender Reddy readied a story to make his debut as a director and through director Sagar met NTR. 
• The person who have appointment was Sagar’s apprentice VV Vinayak 
• NTR heard the story but he was fully busy but if possible let’s work together for next movie (kudirithe next movie cheddam) 
• Take this story to my brother Kalyan ram and so he met Kalyan Ram. As said before his first two movies flopped. With 3rd film have to get success at any cost. 
• Surender Reddy narrated the story for 15 minutes and Kalyan liked the story elements and said let’s do this film, please work on the script. Then he came back and told hi the full story and said I dont like it, then he took another 6 months to work on the script and then the final version came and he okayed the movie, 
• They already told it to Harikrishna garu, he said bagundi manchi break vasthadi, go ahead 
• When thinking of procure, if we do it another producers banner, this story shouldn’t have any limits, we should do what we like and start our own banner, sat with Harikrishna, Jananki Ram and NTR and finally they felt putting it on NTR name would be good and thus they started NTR arts banner. 
• Cast and crew ready and on November 15th, 2004 movie was launched at Annapurna Studios. 
• They wanted Prakash Raj for a small role but he didnt have dates then NTR gave reference and he did the movie 
• Annapurna Studios, Aluminum Factory, Shankarpalli Highway, Ramanaidu Cine Village, and Ramoji Film city shooting Motham ayypoyindi 
• March 25th, 2005 hit the gummadikaya. Budget was 8 crores. Then April 9th 2005 audio was launched 
• May 7th, 2006 with 72 prints movie was released. First scene audience were shocked, hero intro scene, heroine villains plan chesthe hero chamapadam, interval scene. 
• Reverse screenplay technique worked wonders and a lot of similar followed this same screenplay technique. 
• Kalyam Ram became a star, Surender Reddy became a star director, first hit on NTR banner Arts 
• After 3 weeks, increased to 100 prints 
• Ran for 50 days in 80 centers, 100 days in 46 centers and collected more than 20 crores gross 
• Bhadra, Narasimhudu and Andarivaadu released within 3 week gap of Athanokkade otherwise it would have collected more. 
• Remade in Tamil as Aathi with Thalapathy Vijay and Trisha 
• Ashsih Vidyarthi won Best Villain Filmfare award and Surender reddy won Best Debut Director Nandi Award 

Credits 

Banner: RR MovieMakers

Cast: Ravi Teja, Ileana, Shyam, Brahmanandam, Kota, Venu Madhav, Sayaji Shinde, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Ali, Benerjee, Chalapati Rao

Music: Thaman S
Cinematography: Rasool Ellore
Art: Narayana Reddy
Stunts: Vijay
Editing: Gowtam Raju Screenplay - direction: Surender Reddy Producer: RR Venkat Release date: May 8th, 2009

Interesting Facts 

• Director Surender Reddy first movie blockbuster next two movies flops, so he took a break, he asked Vakkantham Vamsi who we worked on with Ashok to prepare an entertainment subject without an ounce of blood and he told him Kick story. Surender Reddy liked it. Along with Vamsi, they spent it for 6 months, script came out well and dialogues were written by Abburi Ravi  
• First they told it to NTR, NTR said hero characterization is nice but ee time lo experiment cheyyadam avasaram ani reject chesaru, next they met Prabhas, he rejected it, and they he felt the characterization wouldn’t suit anyone else but Rvaiteja, went and met him and Tod him to the story and immediately said yes, at the time he was supposed to do a socio fantasy movie called Kandireega with Krushna Vamsi 
• The budget was too much and that would take a long time so he put that aside and signed this movie, hamayya finally hero dorakaru anukunnaru, Ileana heroine, Kota Rao Ramesh Brahmanandham, Venu Madhav, Sayaji Shinde rest of the cast fixed 
• But for Raviteja opposite/villain role they couldn’t fi d anyone. They asked a lot of people in telugu and even asked Jagapathi Babu, but a Tamil magazine in a movie called Aagamu Puram Surender Reddy saw Shyam stills, and he contacted him and without a 2nd thought, Shyam did the movie 
• October 9th 2008, Ramaniadu studios movie was launched, Hyderabad, Ramoji Film City, Sanghi Temple, Annapurna Studios, Rama Naidu Studios, Switzerland, and Malaysia movie was filmed, Himachal Pradesh they filmed the movie 
• April 2009 shooting finished. April 19th 2009, audio was released and budget 14 crores 
• May 9th, 2009 movie released, movie got stunning openings, new story and Raviteja performance tho movie oopu aadindi 
• Another blockbuster for Raviteja, after 4 years hit for Sruender Reddy, another hit for Ileana, vakkantham Vamsi became a star writer,  and Thaman became a star music director with jus his 2nd film and his telugu debut and Shyam became kick Shyam after. 
• Box office, 50 days in 220 centers and shift centers 100 days in 55 centers collected a share of 28 crores share and more than 40 crores gross at the box office. Appatlo Jalsa movie tho Kalisi it stood as all time top 5 highest grossing telugu movies at the time of it’s release, in 2009 top 3 movies of all time, collected highest share that year after Magadheera I think, 28 crores share not even some star heroes had that record at that time 
• Nizam collected 3 crores share which was also huge. Remade in Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi and I believe it was a success in all the remade languages. 

Agenda 

1) First watch and impressions

2) How your liking towards it grew towards the movie. 

3) Songs and Technicalities - very brief 

4) Writing and Direction 

5) Favorite Scenes and Dialogues 

6) why it will always be a classic 

Banner: Supergood Films

Cast: Venkatesh, Arti Agarwal, Sneha, Srikanth, Siva Balaji, Sarvanand, Sangeeta, Rathi, Sarada, Chandra Mohan, Tanikella Bharani, Raghunatha Reddy, Sudhakar, Rallapally,

Story: Lingaswamy

Dialogues: Paruchuri brothers

Lyrics: ES Murthy, Pothula Ravi Kiran, Sirivennela & Bhaskarabhatla

Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Suchitra and Nobel

Art: Kumar

Music: SA Raj Kumar

Editing: Nandamuri Hari

Cinematography: B Bala Murugan

Screenplay, direction: Muppalaneni Siva

Producer: RB Chowdary

Theatrical release date: 18th February 2005

Interesting Facts 

Did a movie called Dost, it didnt work he went into depression the first idea he got was title called Sankranthi, A Tamil movie called Anandam, Venkatesh showed it to him and asked him hows it, chala baguntadi babu but other commitments dooram ayyindi 

But central point haunted him, 4 brothers melodrama what if a kodalu doesnt come, the whole drama, climax pasibidda. Also put the title because the movie has so many people in it, picture pandagala vathavarnan, Amma thinne bojanam bore kottadu

First Srikanth said he wouldn’t do the movie, 4 brothers yemi undi, Im doing Radha Gopalam with bapu garu as main hero, Super Good banner convinced him to do the movie and forced him actually 

First they thought of Vadde Naveen, but bhagavanthudu vere sankalpam undi ee movie ninnu chepisthundi 

For pedda kodalu, we felt Sneha would be a good fit because she has this seriousness and she acts with her eyes 

This was Sharwanands film successful film, he did two movies with Venkatesh this and same brother role in Lakshmi 

They actually filmed the movie in Bhadrachalam and did the wedding scenes in a wedding function hall 

For the climax, they wanted a location where you can fix Dashavatharalu in a lake, executive producer Vakada Appa Rao took him to Chennai, he said all the actors are from there as all the actors are from there, they went to Marina Beach, this is the climax song, due to the wind and water they’ll feel ibbandi and we have to do all these things we have to put muggulu etc how can we do it in the beach, then where else will you do it, if its Hyderabad then forget about it. Then he got a phone call one fine morning if you want to do it in Hyderabad, immediately he got reminded of the big lake in ICRSAT, there’s ways water there and lot of greenery and they fixed the Davastharalu, Thota Tharani worked as art director for that song and Suchitra Chandrabose was the choreographer 

That morning Venkatesh got a call at 7:30 AM, they said theres a tsunami in Chennai and Marina Beach and the all the boats came onto the main road, if you walk 2 KMS but it came onto the read, and they had to do it on that day call sheet prakaram all they had all the cast dates and they had been there that day, then it would have been scary. 

Audio of Venkatesh's latest film Sankranthi was released at a function arranged in Rama Naidu studios on the night of 20th January 2005. Sarath Kumar, K Raghavendra Rao and D Rama Naidu were invited as guests.

Music director SA Raj Kumar said Sankranthi is his 150th film as music director in his career. His 100th film Nuvvu Vastavani went on to become a big hit. This film is 24th film with Super Good films and 45th Telugu film. He scored music for Suryavamsam, Kalisundam Raa, Raja and Vasantham for Venkatesh and all those films went on to become blockbusters

Sarada is reentering field after a log gap. Her last film was Anthapuram. Siva worked with Srikanth for Gilligajjalu and Taj Mahal. This is his 3rd film with him. 

Vasantham is the first Indian movie to be filmed in Turkey. Ela Vachenamma was filmed in Capadoccia which is made from Cliffs and Andala Srimathiki was filmed in Pammakulae which is famous for its hot springs. You can see the same location in Ninne Naa in Salute movie and then Nena Nenaa in Nippu movie. 

Movie was a Blockbuster at the box office, collected 18 crores share and ran for 50 days in 177 centers and 100 days in 68 centers. 

Credits 

Banner: Sri Ranjith Movies

Cast: Nani, Nitya Menon, Sneha Ullal, Kriti Karbandha, Chaitanya Krishna, Pragati, CVL, Pragati, Rohini, Uppalapati Narayana Rao, Mirchi Hemanth, Raja Valluru, Pinky, Rhea etc.

Music: Kalyani Malik
Cinematography: Arjun Jena

Art Direction: Dharmendra
Editor: Marthand K Venkatesh
Dialogues: Lakshmi Bhoopal
Executive producer: Vivekananda Kuchibhotla
Story - screenplay - direction: BV Nandini Reddy
Producer: KL Damodar Prasad
Release date: 21 January 2011

Audio was launched on November 15th, 2010 

Finally movie released on January 21st 2011 and became a blockbuster at the box office collecting 10 crores share. 

Ran for 50 days in 54 centers and 100 days in 27 centers   

Writing/Direction

3 best scenes in diverting audiences perception are 

• Opening scene 
• Doctor scene 
• Interval scene - you think someone kidnapped Nithya and then turns out to be someone she knows. 

Also the brilliance in writing is something like a subplot about Nani being gay is setup in a changing room in a store where one guy sees him and then when Nani goes to meet Sneha Ullal’s father, the same guy sees him and calls him out for it leading to their wedding being cancelled.

The reason why this movie still works in present day is due to the fact that the 3 scenes will always be relevant no matter the generation change

1. Nani asks him Mom how do you know when the you’ll find your soulmate. She puts her hand on his heart and says  nuvvu decide ayyinaooudu. A lot of people force themselves into committing too early or too late which leads to failed relationship. 
2. Nithya Menon family set up. Questions from parents Pelli eppudu and then internal fights due to relatives pressure about things. Typical Indian mindset of caring so much about what other people will think different way of showing paruvu etc. Nithya Menon explains that generation is different and always look for something new but dont want to repair the one that is already there and try to make it work. 
3. Nithya Menon Chaitanya Krishna scene - he tells her that she made 30 calls and 20 messages and asks her to check herself. Theres no rile Just because youre engaged doesnt mean you cant like someone else. He tells her to check it. And he’s doubtful and after marriage neeku check cheyyali anispisthe. Nammakam lena appudu this wont work. 

These are beautiful scenes and extremely relevant. Also loved in pre climax when Nithya Menon, her dad gives a little smile and tells her to go 

That being said, 2nd half felt extremely repetitive.

Literally entire 2nd half, Nithya comes to visit, misunderstands Gautham and this keeps happening every 2 minutes. Felt much slower than the first half for sure. 

Also felt they didnt need to kill Rohini. She could have been kept alive and also felt out of place. 

I guess despite the so called “lag” in 2nd half, climax makes up for everything tying things together with final twist coming out to Ashish Vidyarthi that he kidnapped the wrong guy and actually let the jeep go and this is brilliantly done in a set up and pay off. 

You have an extremely similar type of set up and pay off in Venkatadri Express where hero helps eloped couple and gets them married and that girl his brother is supposed to marry. 

Climax is hilarious with Thagubothu Ramesh and his antics. Like he asks to call DSP Ramchandra Victory Venkatesh Gharshana lmaooo. 

Movie ends on a nice note with them finally uniting in a funny climax. 

Basically very lightened breezy entertainer which Telugu cinema is missing a lot of. Especially situational comedy and just comedy in general. 

Direction by Nandini Reddy is superb. This is easily her best film and remains her best film. The writing is excellent and as mentioned before the perception changing in some scenes is so well done throughout the movie. The screenplay is very engaging despite some slower moments in the 2nd half. But an extremely well executed and repeat value rom com for sure. 

Interesting Facts

- I was disappointed after Jagadam's flop. That is when Rajamouli came to me and told me not to get disappointed by the result. He asked me to stick to my conviction and moviemaking style. His advice gave me lot of confidence. It was Bhogavally Prasad who fed me for an year after the flop of Jagadam. Bunny okayed the project without knowing about the story. Allu Arjun supported me a lot before starting the project though he troubled me after the start of shoot. I would like to thank the producers Aditya Babu and Bhogvally Prasad."

• Arya II (sequel to Arya) is launched on August 8th, 2008  with performing of puja at the temple of Lord Vinayaka at Ramanaidu Studios, Hyderabad. A big contingent of film biggies – Dr. KL Narayana, Ramcharan Tej, Allu Arvind, Bommarillu Bhaskar, Dil Raju, (Producers) BVN Prasad and Aditya Babu, (hero) Allu Arjun, (director) Sukumar, (special role) Navadeep and others took part in the event. Kajal plays the heroine for Allu Arjun. Interestingly, the puja and launch formalities were performed without any media coverage. 
• Musheerabad, Annapurna Studios they filmed it, thats all I have on me 

- Music of Allu Arjun's latest movie 'Arya 2' was launched on the night of 1st November in Rock Heights, Madhapur. SS Rajamouli, Nagababu, VV Vinayak, Dil Raju, KL Narayana, Maganti Babu, seenu Vytla, Meher Ramesh, Krish, Varun Sandesh, Aryan Rajesh, Prabhas, Gangaraju Gunnam, Gemini Kiran, Arjuna Raju, KC Sekhara Babu, RD Rajasekhar etc attended the funtion along with the cast and crewmembers.

Arya 2 was released in 1000 screens worldwide.

Allu Arjun has got unprecedented craze in Kerala with Arya movie. Since Arya, the dubbing rights of all Allu Arjun’s movies are selling for high prices for Kerala. His latest movie Arya 2 got dubbed into Telugu and made a mind-boggling pre-release business around 2 crores.

Arya 2 is going to hit the screens in Kerala on 5 February in over 100 screens. Divya Pictures Palakkad is releasing Arya 2 in Kerala and it is expected to bring heavy openings. 

Stylish Star Allu Arjun’s ‘Arya-2’ is turning out to be a massive hit. Though the film started with a dull talk on day 1, it started accelerating from day 2 so much so that it collected a huge share of about 16 crores in the first week. The film’s collection in Nizam area totaled to 4.10 crores while it aggregated about 1 crore in Vizag.

In mass areas like Guntur, the collection went up to 8 crores, which is second highest of the year after ‘Magadheera.’ But the film had a major setback in the Nizam area where Allu Arjun has a strong hold. The 2-day bandh in the region showed a significant effect on the collections.

Dil Raju, the distributor of the film in Nizam area incurred a huge loss of about one and half crore for 2 days.

Nizam - 6.5 crores - screening stopped (KCR Fasting break chesina roju and Bandh valla First week lo 1/12 days Nizam shows bandh, also 1st weekend December 5th 3 shows, (sat day) December 6th all shows (Sunday) Dec7th all shows (Monday) all are canceled 

Nizam Distributor Dil Raju who shared the rights along with Producer for 5.5 crores already recovered but estimated loss of profit 4-5 crores in Nizam region only. Nizam area is one of the strong hold of Allu Arjun and the move had faced severe breaks even in first 10 days when the movie going with packed houses.

Overseas Collections, Audio Rights, Satellite Rights, And Kerala Rights (95 lakhs not included) All are about 7 crores 

This year Arundathi, Magadheera and Kick, the 3 movies are crossed 25 crores mark. Aarya 2 is the forth one in the path of 25crores of theatrical share.

But still movie incurred 5 crores loss. 

Sources: 

https://www.ragalahari.com/article/1376/arya-2-collections-till-date

https://www.greatandhra.com/movies/gossip/arya2-loss-rs-5-crores-17795

Best Movies 

1. Lucky Bhaskar
2. Committee Kurrolu
3. 35 Chinna Katha Kaadhu
4. Kalki
5. Saripodha Saanivaram

Worst Movies 

1. Guntur Kaaram

2. Pushpa 2 The Rule

3. Devara

4. Family Star

5. Saindhav

6. Naa Saami Ranga

7. Tillu Sqaure  

8. Hanuman

9. Gaami

10. Gangs of Godavari

11. Swag

12. Mathu Vadalara 2

13. Mr Bachchan

14. Viswam 

15. KA

Best Telugu Songs of 2024 

1. Neeli Meghamulalo from 35 Chinna Katha Kaadhu 

2. Mawa Enthaina from Guntur Kaaram 

3. Chuttmalle from Devara 

4. Tappa Tappa from Manamey 

5. Ullasam from Saripodha Saanivaram 

6. Garam Garam from Saripoda Saanivaram 

7. Srimathi Garu from Lucky Bhaskar 

8. Nijama Kaala from Lucky Bhaskar 

9. Lucky Bhaskar Title from Lucky Bhaskar 

10. Kalki Theme from Kalki 

11. Radhika from Tillu Square 

12. Godard Gattupaina from Sankranthiki Vasthunam 

13. Shivam from Gaami 

14. Aa Rojullo from Committee Kurollu 

15. Prema Gaaradi from Committee Kurollu 

16. Nandananana from The Family Star 

17. Madhurame Kadha from The Family Star 

18. Anuvananuvu from Om Bheem Bush 

19. Amma Song from Guntur Kaaram 

20) Nallanchu Tellacheera 

21) Meenu from Sankranthiki Vasthunam 

WORST TELUGU SONGS OF 2024 

1. Kurchi Madhapetti from Guntur Kaaram 

2. Peelings from Pushpa 2 

3. Sooseki from Pushpa 2 

4. Kissik from Pushpa 2 

5. Fear song from Devara 

6. Daavudi from Devara 

7. Ayudha Pooja from Devara 

8. Steppamaar from ISmart 2 

9. YOLO from Kanguva 

10. Kalyani Vacha Vacha from Family Star 

11. Entire Saindhav album 

12. Entire Naa Saami Ranga album 

13. Entire Eagle album 

14. Motha Mogipodhi from Gangs of Godavari 

15. Ika Naa Maate from Manamey 

16. Bhairava Anthem from Kalki 

17. Gunguru Gunguru from Viswam 

18. Raa Macha Macha Raa from Game Changer 

19. Jaragandi from Game Changer 

20. Nanna Hyranaa from Game Changer 

21. Maar Muntha Chod Chintha from  Imsart 2 

22. One More Time from Robinhood

2024 Tollywood Review 

Hero of the Year - Allu Arjun for Pushpa 2 

Best Actor - Allu Arjun for Pushpa 2 

Special mention - Dulquer Salmaan for Lucky Bhaskar and Mahesh Babu for Guntur Kaaram 

Best Actress - Nivetha Thomas for 35 Chinna Katha Kaadhu 

Special mention - Rashmika for Pushpa 2 

Best Supporting Actor - Amitabh Bachchan in Kalki 

Best Picture: Lucky Bhaskar 

Best Director: Venky Atluri for Lucky Bhaskar 

Best Supporting Actress - N/A 

Best Music Director - N/A 

Song Of the Year - Neeli Meghamulalo from 35 Chinna Katha Kaadhu 

Best Cinematography - Djordje Stolijikovic for Kalki or Kuba for Pushpa 2 

Worst director - Trivikram Srinivas for Guntur Kaaram, Koratala Siva for Devara and Sukumar for Pushpa 2 

Special mention - Parasuram Petla for Family Star 

Worst movie: Guntur Kaaram, Family Star, Pushpa 2, Devara, Gaami, Saindhav, Naa Saami Ranga, Gangs of Godavari, 

Most overrated movie: Hanuman 

Surprise of the year: Lucky Bhaskar 

Best Singer: Srikrishna for Mawa Enthaina 

Best Singer Female: Shreya Ghoshal for Sooseki

2025 Preview 

1. Game Changer
2. Daaku Maharaj
3. Sankranthiki Vasthunamm
4. Anaganaga Oka Raju
5. VD12
6. The Paradise
7. Hari Hara Veera Mallu
8. OG
9. Thandel
10. Raja Saab
11. Mirai
12. Jack
13. Kanappa
14. Ghaati
15. Mass Jathara
16. Hit 3  
17. Fauji
18. Vishwambhara
19. Kubera 
20. War 2

Credits

Banners: GA 2 & UV Creations

Cast: Nani, Lavanya Tripathi, Murali Sharma, Vennela Kishore, Ajay, Praveen, Srinivasa Reddy, Naresh, Vikram Savyasachi, Bhadram, Sitara, Satya Krishnan etc.

Cinematography: Nizar Shafi

Editor: Uddhav SB

Music: Gopi Sunder

Lyrics: Ramajagoayya Sastry, Sri Mani, Bhaskar Batla

Art: Ramana Vanka

Story, screenplay, dialogues & Direction: Maruthi

Producer: Bunny Vas $ VAmsi Pramod 

Release date:  September 4th, 2015

Interesting Facts 

• One day Maruthi was trying to go to the Geetha Arts office, forgot the route, its velladam, ate vellladam, then got an idea what if there’s someone who keep forgetting things, that night thought about it and wrote some scenes and then if we do a story on this thought of doing this after Ee Romulo and Bus Stop movies, but it ran in my mind for 2 years 
• I also have this story to other directors and told them to work on it giving them this point, they sued to get stuck on it, idi avvadule then I made Prema Katha Chitram and then Kotha Janta, then I was in a dilemma whether to make another horror comedy or make this movie, then I told my co writer Swamy and he said ledu ledu idhi kotha point andi, I started to developed it, then I told it to MS Raju during that time, point adiri poyyindi, ventane Sunil gariki phone chesaru, chesthe chala baguntadi, Sunil also liked the point bagindi, develop cheyyi katha vintanu, but Maruthi felt konchem age thakkuva inna hero like Nani chesthe bagiqntadi 
• Then he told UV Vamsi through SKN, then he told Bunny Vasu but during the time he told Bunny Vasu he went away from the story and didnt develop it as much then he stopped and then told Vamsi ill work on it. After Kotha Janta released, he told them after 1 month and worked on the script for 6 months continuously and then on March 3rd, 2015 movie started shooting. 
• Title was confirmed with the title and when he was working with Raviteja at the time and he said bhale gaa undi title and everyone felt in industry felt the same too. Taken from an song in an old Kamal Hassan movie Maro CHarithra 
• Movie is not inspired from any other movie or similarities 
• One afternoon he met Nani. UV Vamsi went to meet Nani and told him maruthi wants to narrate a story and he narrated it for 1 hour. Nani said bhale uni idea, he gave little inputs (Chinna Chinna konni ideal and improvisation icharu), Maruthi garu enjoued the script writing process a lot and they had some discussions about how to akee the 2nd half. Nan also felt after Astham Chamma and Pilla Zamindar I haven’t done an entertainer like this so he also felt it would be good 

• Movie was filmed on a budget of 2.61 crores without actors and technicians remuneration, if all of them added movie cost 7.5 crores with publicity 
• Coming to box office, movie collected 27 crores share becoming a blockbuster at the box office, USA it collected $1,426,527 becoming the 4th highest grossing telugu movie of all time in usa after Baahubali, Srimanthudu, Attarintiki Daredi. Gross it collected more than 55 crores and gave Nani another break in his career 
• Almost every single person associated with the movie got a huge break and they all went onto become busy actors in the industry especially Murali Sharma and Naresh. 

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING!!!! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED

Credits 

Banner: Mythri Movie Makers

Cast: Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil, Rao Ramesh, Jagapathi Babu, Sunil, Dhananjay, Ajay, Jagadeesh Pratap, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Tarak Ponappa, Sritej, Shamukh, Pavani Kamaram, Adithya Menon, Kalpalatha, Saurabh Sachdeva, Mime Gopi, Aadukalam Naren, Bindu Chandramouli, Brahmaji, Dayanand Reddy 

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Additional BGM: Sam CS

Cinematography: Mirosław Kuba Brożek

Editing: Navin Nooli 

Dialogues: Srikanth Vissa 

Sound Design: Rasool Pookutty

Costume Design: Deepali Noor - Sheetal Sharma

Production Design: Rama Krishna and Monika

Fights: Peter Hein, "Dragon" Prakash, Kecha, Navakanth

Story - screenplay - Direction: Sukumar

Producers: Naveen Yerneni & Y Ravi Shankar 

Release date: December 5th, 2024

Context

Not much to say at all. It’s the sequel to Pushpa 1 and I didnt feel movie needed a sequel. But they released a teaser las year where is Pushpa which writer Srikanth Vissa said is all part of part 3 cause its not there in the movie. 

I had some hope that part 2 would be better than part 1 in terms of storytelling, elevations, and highs, and there are elevations and highs but done in the most cringe way possible. 

Trailer came and it wasnt good but had some hope that sometimes movies deceive the trailers. How bad the trailer is, movie is pretty much the same. 

Songs came out and its the worst ALBUM in Allu Arjuns career as well as Sukumar and DSP career. Amazing downfall from all 3 of them. 

Finally movie released and definitely have to say its bad. In no way I can call it good. It’s disappointing no doubt. Nt much of a difference between Guntur karma and Pushpa 2. Lead actor did their job, but everyone else especially director who is also the writer who all seem to be clueless once again colossally failed to their job. 

Interesting Facts

Not much to say man other than Jagapathi Babu joined the cast and then first look last year was done in Jathara get up leading everyone to praise them. 

Literally other than 1-2 scenes nothing was shot in real locations everything was done in sets. For item song they considered Sraddha Kapoor but apparently she asked for 8 crores and then they cast Sreeleela marking her first item song. 

For the Jathara episode they shot the Jathara episode for 35 days. We also did rehearsals for 15 days and they spend apparently 50-60 crores on this sequence alone. I think a set was built in RFC for it. 

Trailer came and half the shots in the trailer aren’t even there and back then there was talk after watching KGF 2, Sukumar reworked the script and added more things but after seeing everything there’s nothing in the movie and its just a bunch of random stuff. 

Finally DSP controversy where he was signed to do songs and BGM entire music but producers went behind his back and hired Sam CS to do 90% of the movies BGM. 

It’s also the first Telugu movie to release in 12,000 screens worldwide. 

Also the fact that to make a basic commercial movie, they took 3 years. Its a joke of a production. 

Also producers raised ticket prices and put it as 1200 and expected shows to be houseful. 

Acting

Allu Arjun is the only reason to watch the movie. AMAZING. The amp, swag, and attitude is amped up in 2nd part and voice modulation was very well done but gave irritation. In first part his slang was very good but in this part couldn’t understand half the dialogues due to him eating pan the entire movie in every scene. 

In Jathara sequence he’s sensational.acted with literally every part and muscle and full respect to performing that scene. It’s very effective due to his performance only. Also the rage that he has is very well captured throughout the movie especially in climax. 

He’s in almost every scene in the movie but whatever his motives and all were there in part 1, it’s not as effective and there’s no arc for his character diluting the performance. 

Credits 

Banner: Mythri Movie Makers

Cast: Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil, Rao Ramesh, Sunil, Dhananjay, Ajay Ghosh, Ajay, Jagadeesh Pratap, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Shatru, Brahmaji, Mime Gopi, Shammukh, Kalpalatha, Dayanand Reddy, Raj Tirandasu, Samantha (SA) 

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Cinematography: Mirosław Kuba Brożek

Editing: Karthik Srinivas

Dialogues: Srikanth Vissa 

Sound Design: Rasool Pookutty

Production Design: Rama Krishna and Monika

Action: Ram Laxman & Peter Hains

Story - screenplay - Direction: Sukumar

Producers: Naveen Yerneni & Y Ravi Shankar 

Release date: December 17th 2021

Interesting Facts

- “The story I narrated to Mahesh Babu was also based on red sander smuggling but that was a while ago. Once I came out of the project, I wrote a different story. I wanted the character attitude.

“And with Mahesh Babu, I couldn’t make him cool. He is very fair. So, the backdrop was the same but the story is different,

• Due to him being busy with Indian 2 replacing Ravi Varma, Rathnavelu couldn’t adjust dates for Pushpa and they went ahead with Polish DOP Miroslaw Kuba Brozek who did Nani’s Gang leader 
• Editor Navil Nooli was replaced with Karthika Srinivas and Ruben after doing Nannaku Prematho and Rangasthalam while Rama Krishna and Mounika were retained as production designers 

Jagadeesh was cast by Sukumar after he watched his performances in the films Mallesham (2019) and George Reddy (2019).[56] In an interview, Jagadeesh Prathap Bandari revealed that he had left 15 smaller projects for working in the film. 

Lots of names at the time were in the news for the item song mainly Disha Patani, but then Samantha who criticized Sukumar’s poster in the past was finally recruited. 

Sukumar said Samantha did hesitate to do the special song initially. 

 But I convinced her, saying that star actresses have been doing it. Pooja Hegde did one in 'Rangasthalam'. I convinced her that she would look great. She said 'no' again. I later called her and requested her to trust me and the title was Ooh Antava sung by Mangli’s sister Indravathi Chauhan and somehow become an nationwide sensation and Samantha’s performance was praised a lot. 

To find the right location, they went to Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka literally every forest, finally they settled on Maredumilli till date nobody has covered a movie fully there. 

Speaking in an interview 

The film was shot on multiple sets at Sarathi, Ramoji Film City, Annapurna Studios, and Aluminium Factory. We erected a total of 29 sets in just two months and worked day and night to meet the deadline.

Due to the pandemic, even a forest set was created. A waterfall was created at a bungalow in Jubilee Hills. The scene was to be shot in Kerala but we shifted it here. Looking at the sets, even Allu Arjun couldn’t make out which is real and which one was fake.

Undoubtedly the forest set. Recreating a natural forest was the biggest challenge we faced. So much detailing has gone into the set work that it is highly impossible to make out the difference. Getting permission to put up the sets in the forest was also a daunting task. 

Allu Arjun said that "We had about 400–500 cars in the forest that would take us from point A to B. In some places, there were no roads and we had to create a pathway with whatever was available. 

Srivalli song was filmed in Tenkasi in Tamil Nadu temple on hill and then Ey Bidda Idi Na Adda" (transl. This is my area) song was filmed at the Mallikarjun Swami Temple of Beeramguda. 

Finally movie released on December 17th in competition with Spider Man No Way Home and people rub it in but the movie was a flop in Andhra due to low ticket prices but surprisingly it was ahead of hit everywhere else which is completely unexpected. It was also the only star hero movie to release in 2021 as none of the other 5 heroes had a single release due to Covid. 

Also listed as Rashmi Madona in the end credits. So much disrespect from the team. 

Banner: AVM Productions

Cast: Rana Daggubati, Richa Gangopadhyay, Priya Anand, Kota Sreenivasa Rao, Suman, Suhasini, Subbaraju, Harsha Vardhan, Tanikella Bharani, Rao Ramesh, Ahuti Prasad, Narsing Yadav and Udaya Bhanu (SA)

Music: Mikey J Meyer
Cinematography: Vijay C Kumar
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Art Direction: Thota Tharani
Story - screenplay - dialogues - director: Sekhar Kammula
Producer: MS Guhan
Release date: 19 February 2010

Interesting Facts: https://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/sekharkammula-leader.html

Music was launched on November 22nd 2009 in Hotel Marriott. Chiranjeevi and Ramanaidu came as chief guests. Allu Arjun also came to the event along with Nagarjuna and Venkatesh in attendance obviously. Siumanth also came. Basically everybody came can see the audio launch photos. 

Finally movie released on February 19th 2010 and got average talk. 

Coming to box office details according to Sekhar Kammula 

What was the commercial outcome of your last film Leader?
Leader was made on a budget of 13 crores. It has collected a theatrical share of 10 crores and made 3 crores on satellite rights. It was a safe project. Leader film had everything going against it compared to commercial flicks. It has no comedy, no romance and the subject was politics and politics are always playing on TV channels. Despite that it made a theatrical share of 10 crore rupees. I feel that minimum market for my films is 10 crores of theatrical share.

Writing/Direction

Basically this is like an unofficial trilogy of common men becoming CM’s or similar type of guy doing his job as CM honestly with Oke Okkadu, Leader and Bharat Ane Nenu. 

When people said BAN was leader, I didnt believe them but its literally just commercialized version of Leader but done in a way entertaining fashion and in more in depth manner. Leader only covers a few things. 

Main themes are honesty and corruption. Very interesting balance since both are opposite of each other. 

Movie starts off is a never funny way so random. Jeeps come and then suddenly it explodes and and drama builds and there’s reasoning for everything to a point. 

Direction by Shekar Kammula is ok. His writing is good in 1st half and political commentary about politics in his eyes, but a terrible 2nd half along with not deeply exploring the various issues and sectors a CM has to deal with gives a incomplete feeling making Leader an average movie. 

Technicalities

Music and BGM by Mickey J meyer is good. Songs are very good and BGM is in sync with rest of the movie. Got goosebumps at start of Venademataram song and taking. 

Credits

Banner: VMC

Cast: NTR, Bhumika Chawla, Ankita, Seeta, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, Nasar, Mukesh Rushi, Sarad Saxena, Rahul Dev, Rajan P Dev, Chalapati Rao, Bhanu Chandar, Surya, Hari, Venu Madhav, Rallapalli, GV, Kallu Chidambaram, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Subbaraya Sharma, Pardhasaradhi, Sangeeta, Hema, Ramya Sri, Sravani, Ragini, Master Sandeep, Master Mahendra

Story: Vijayendra Prasad

Dialogues: Viswanath, Rathnam

Music: MM Keeravani

Songs: Veturi, Sirivennela, ChandraBose, Vennelakanti

Art: Anand Sai

Stunts: A Vijay

Cinematography: K Ravindra Babu

Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao

Co-director: Thota Rama Krishna

Presented by: V Daraswamy Raju

Producer: V Vijay Kumar Varma

Screenplay - Direction: SS Rajamouli

Release date: 9 July 2003

Interesting Facts

• After Aadi, NTR became a star and the two movies he did after Allari Ramudu and Naaga flopped and he realized he has to keep the stardom (nilapettu kovali) and he listened to almost 80 stories within that gap and didnt like any of them. 
• Finally in VMC Banner, he started a movie with Kalisunam Raa fame Uday Shankar and they filmed 2 songs bit they didnt like the output and they stopped the movie. Then Rajamouli was getting ready for his 2nd movie with Raghavanedra Rao son as hero but due to budget issues, movie stopped, then Vijayanedra Prasad at that time wrote a story for B Gopal Balayya combo. But Balayya didnt like the story and then Rajamouli said we can make this with another hero and kept it. 
• He told Vijayendra Prasad to narrate it to NTR but Vijjayendra Prasad said antha kurrodu cheyyagalda. Rajamouli confidently said chesthadu. Started narrating the scene When NAssar takes a bath and breaks Ravibabu bones first and NTR didnt move at all (kadhalakunda vinnadu) said idhi kadha naaku kavalsindi and said tworaga start cheddam to the producer 
• They started the casting and finalized it, started filming in November 2002, originally Ankitha character was to be done by Aarthi Agarwal but she was busy with Vasantham and couldn’t give dates they took Ankitha 
• With everything in the story already set, filming finished very fast. Hyderabad, Vizag, Kerala filming was done and completed in 100 working days. 9 crores budget and 14 crores pre release business 
• Finally on July 9th, 2003 released with 150 prints. After 2 days, NTR prabhajanam started. SIngamalali was heard everywhere and a perfect mass masala movie idhi raa ante. People were lined up at the theater and everywhere you went only Simhadri Simhadri. People were Fidaa with NTR acting 
• Nenu kavala, adhi kavala scene, interval scene, Bhanuchander champe scene, NTR goppa natudu manaki choopisthayi 
• While watching the climax of Vasantha Kokila, Vijayendra Prasad wrote the story of Simhadri. 
• With this movie NTR become a superstar and was next to only Chiranjeevi in TFI and media projected him as No1 hero in Telugu 
• Coming to box office, created some 1st week records like 50 days in 180 centers and then direct 100 days in 150 centers, appatlo all India record, next 175 days in 52 centers, its still an all time record 
• In Nellore, it collected 92 lakh gross which was all time record until Gabbar Singh in 2012 
• In many towns and cities, it had all time records and was a gigantic blockbuster 
• Collected 25 crores share but it was not an Industry hit at it didnt cross Indra share which was 28 crores. Regardless it was still all time top 2 movie and NTR became a superstar at age 20. 

Credits

Banner: Bhagyalakshmi Enterprises

Cast:

Nagarjuna Akkineni ... Prakash

Girija ... Geethanjali

Vijay Kumar ... Geethanjali's father

Vijayachander ... Prakash's father

Sumitra ... Prakash's mother

Radha Bai ... Geethanjali's grandmother

Dubbing Janaki ... Lakshmi

Muccherla Aruna ... Doctor

Shavukaru Janaki ... Vice Chancellor (Guest Appearance)

Other Cast: Sutti Velu, Chandramohan, 'Disco' Shanti, Silk Smitha (Guest), Padma, Priya, Neena, etc.

Dialogues: Rajasri

Music: Ilayaraja

Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. Janaki, K.S. Chitra

Lyrics: Veturi Sundararamamurthy

Choreography: Sundaram

Art: Thota Tharani

Editing: B. Lenin, V.T. Vijayan

Camera: P.C. Sriram

Producers: C. Praveen Kumar Reddy, P.R. Prasad

Story, Screenplay, and Direction: Maniratnam

Interesting Facts

It took me 9 films to realise my sensibilities. I was instructed by people around me for 8 films to choose a script. Then I realised that it’s not my sensibility. 

That’s when I saw Mani Rathnam’s Mouna Ragam. Films used to be screened just for morning shows during that time. Mouna Raagam ran for an year with morning shows in a theater. I liked Mani Rathnam and went to his home. I use to wait outside his house and say good morning once in every 3 days when he comes out for morning walk at 6:30 am. I did it for one month. Then I asked him to direct me for a Telugu film. He said that he doesn’t know Telugu. I convinced him that his visuals have language and it’s universal. That’s how Geetanjali was made. 

Girija salary was 75,000 rupees and then she had to go back and forth for visa issues as she came from the UK. 

Nagarjuna was paid 6 lakhs 30,000 rupees. 

First copy was readied with 95 lakhs and sold for pre release business of 1.4 crores, giving him a 9 lakhs profit pre release business 

Finally movie released on May 19th, 1989 and first it got flop talk but then became a blockbuster. Interesting fact in Guntur, the movie got a different version. RGV said this in an interview 

A preview screening of Geethanjali was held at Annapurna Studios a week before its release. Many people who watched the film's preview didn't like it. 

A Guntur distributor was very angry after watching the film and didn't like it at all. He told producer CL Narasa Reddy to remove the accident scene, the scene where the hero realizes that he has cancer and the scene where he goes to Ooty. He said that he will pay money only if these scenes are removed. Mani Ratnam was shocked because the entire gist of the film lies in those scenes.

"Mani Ratnam didn't want to remove those scenes. But the producer can't release the film in the Guntur region if the scenes are not removed. Then, Narasa Reddy removed those four scenes and sent the prints to Guntur without Mani Ratnam's knowledge," he further added. Varma went on to say, "The film was eventually released and got a super hit talk. It got a good talk and became a super hit in Guntur as well. 

Later, Mani Ratnam learnt the fact. He then requested the producer to add the removed scenes in the Guntur region as it got good word of mouth. Then the producer told him what is the need to tamper the film which is already having a good run in theatres."

After 2nd week, Mani Rattan said lets dub the movie Idhayathai Thirudathe in Tamil. In Chennai, Coimbatore, Maduri, Trichy in big centers it ran for 100 days, before that it was Maro Charithra which ran for 100 days with 1 show, Geetanjali ran for 100 days with 3 shows which is still an all time record. 

Previously Nagarjuna had many movies dubbed in Tamil but this was the first movie to see such a huge success. 

It released with 16 prints in 20 centers on July 5th, 1989 ran for 50 days in 19 centers and 100 days in 13 centers and it changed Nagarjuna’s status in Tamil cinema as well. 

Credits 

Banner: First Frame Entertainments

Cast: Varun Tej, Pragya Jaiswal, Nikithan Dheer, Avasarala Srinivas, Gollapudi Maruti Rao, Showkar Janaki, Posani Krishna Murali, Satyam Rajesh etc.

Cinematography: Gnana Shekar VS

Editor: Suraj Jagtap & Rama Krishna Arram

Music: Chirrantan Bhatt

Art: Sahi Suresh

Dialogues: Sai Madhav Burra

Lyrics: Seetharama Sastry

Choreography: Brinda

Action: Venkat & David Khubua

Story - screenplay - direction: Krish

Producers: Y Rajeev Reddy & J Sai Babu

Release date: October 22nd, 2015

Writing/Direction

Lot to say but basically as said before it’s first WW2 Telugu movie and I think first WW2 movie in Indian cinema as a whole because there were War movies before like LOC Kargill, Mission Kashmir, Lakshya, these are all based on wars in India itself nothing about World Wars, and actually after researching this is actually first war based backdrop movie in Telugu movie history. 

Krish wanted to talk about love, war and discrimination during 1936 and then 1944 World War 2 times. So he uses a non linear screenplay to convey the same. We have seen similar screenplay type in many other movies but if I’m being honest it didnt work. 

Let’s talk about what did work 

The backdrop is completely new. The authenticity of the sets, costumes, World War 2 atmosphere and real locations offer a fresh feeling and something we have never seen in Telugu cinema to this point. So that entire part feels refreshing. Also Dhupathi Hari Babu characterization is excellently written - he’s a solider, a friend, a husband, a lover, most of all a man with honor and his character arc runs the entire movie basically. 

The following set up and pay offs are good: 

1. Haribabu says Eeshwar Dhupathi Hari babu salute kotte laga chestha, in the end that’s what happens, he salutes him after reading the letters 
2. He says even if avasaram aithe Eeswar pranaluku naa pranaalu aada vesthanu 
3. The zamindar orders the killing of many lower caste people and builds a fence in the village to separate the castes. It’s a metaphorical and literal symbol of caste discrimination,. Done to separate people amidst caste. 

Also the theme that love is a war that needs to be fought so it happens in past and present. 

Themes of caste, hatred, and war are shown in the movie. Caste is the overarching theme which the rich people believes in and look down upon Lower caste and poor people. 

Hatred is tied back into caste but Nazi hatred jews and think they’re evil is basically done in parallel with the caste hence the screenplay going back and forth. He wanted to that Nazi hatred shown in present or caste in villages are the same, both are wrong. 

War as said before. Love is a war so Haribabu fights a war for love and then a war in present day top help the other oppressed by the Nazi’s in WW2. 

Finally he dies sacrificing himself for the cause appudu aina, ippudu aina he tells eeshwar. 

When Eeswhar asks him, Sita’s love made me do it for you and he feels bad as he killed his own sister. 

Climax was very emotional and made me sad. Dhupathi Hari Babu the OG and finally salutes him. Also Gollpaudi garu acting. It worked very well. 

That being said movie does have big flaws 

1. why is there caste discrimination at all he never explains: I know it;’s a thing in India but there should be an incident for it right.  
2. War sequences are worst. Krish cannot direct action and in any of fight scenes or war sequences they’re no impact due to amateurish way of conceiving and worst execution along with atrocious editing 
3. Foreign actors dubbing is worst and tests patience. Theyre clearly not saying that and worst lip sync 
4. Worst editing. Movie has so many abrupt cuts and jerks and again no impact in any of the war related scenes except the girl coming out naked and saving baby scene but even then he saves the baby and them immediately cuts to a different scene out of nowhere. 

Direction by Krish is ok

Credits 

Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies 

Cast: Nagarjuna, Sridevi, Pradesh Racal, Kota Srinivas Rao, Gummed, JV Somayajulu, Yamuna, Arun Govil, Sudhakar, G Gopal Reddy, Peketi Sivaram, Kallu Chidambaram, Uttej, Kadambari Kiran, Suryakantam, Annapurnamma, Siilk Smitha (SA)  

Music: Raj-Koti 

Lyrics: Veturi & Sirivennela
Dialogues: Jandhyala
Cinematography: S Gopal Reddy
Editing: Shankar 

Stunts:Babu
Art: B. Chalam
Story - Ganapathi Rao Kommanapalli, Ram Gopal varma 

Screenplay - Direction: Ram Gopal Varma
Producer: C. Aswini Dutt
Release date: January 21st, 1994 

Interesting Facts

So basically around that time Aswini Dutt wanted to make a movie with Nagarjuna and what happened was Ram Gopal Varma came with two subjects. One is Rangeela and other one is Govinda Govinda. 

He told that he prefers making Rangeela with Nagarjuna (Amir Khan role) and Rajnikanth (Jackie Shroff role). I told him that I wanted to do an action film. 

Since, I am an ardent follower of Sri Venkateswara Swamy, I preferred mixing action thriller with divinity and made 'Govinda Govinda'. The negative points in that films got highlighted and it became a flop. 

For the music Varma wanted to work with Raj koti as he loved them their music and this combination got set and told Aswini Dutt he wants them and said I need to interview them. 

Raj and Koti came to Annapurna Studios and Varma was a huge fan of Entha Gatu Premayo song from Muta Mestri. Varma told them he wanted something like Hollywood composers. Raj and Koti did a lot of research and brought collections and scores and said we are doing the movie. 

They readied the tunes 1 week before and put them in a butta. Pooja happened in Kanipakam and then they came to thirupathi and did the composing at a wedding hall owned by Doraswamy Raju Annamayya producer. 5-6 people batch. 

Started composing at 3:30, first song composed was Oh Naveena, Okayed it, RVg Butta nundi next song was Indira Mundira, next was Amma Brahma Devudo, okayed it, next Andama Anduma and he loved Sridevi so he thought they wrote it keeping her in mind but vaala uddesam adi kaadhu. 

Then Aswini Dutt when Varma listening to another song and pulled him aside and said you’re okaying everything do you know you’re making a movie with Nagarjuna and Sridevi they’ll give you however many tunes you want, Varma replied saying that it looks like they’ve composed these tunes they sound very fresh and they sound good and he got convicted. 

Actually Priya Ragalle song was composed for Govinda Govinda movie and Aswini Dutt loved it but Varma said it sounds too Indianized he begged Varma and Varma said sir ee style naaku nachadu. 

Finally they heard Premante and it got okayed. In 30-40 minutes all the tunes were okayed and they went back Chennai that night only from Tirupathi, They gave the tunes to Sirivennela garu 7-10 days and readied the lyrics. 

Did the recording from 9 AM - 9 PM, Mani Sharma was the keyboard player, Harris Jayaraj 

Hyderabad, Talakona, Ooty, and Bangkok movie was shot. Also filmed in sets at Padmalaya Studios and most of the songs are filmed in India only. 

According to RGV, the censor board cut a lot of scenes due to the controversial nature of the story in relation to Tirumala temple. 

Additionally, apparently there are scenes of the theives climbing the statue to get the Kireetam which were also cut from the final print. 

They reshot the some scenes as he didnt want to cut the scenes and they postponed it. 

Finally movie released on January 21st, 1994 and it was not successful. 

Due to the censor board becoming an obstacle, RGV swore to never make movies in Telugu again and didnt make a movie for a very long time. 

Credits 

Banner: Universal Media

Cast: Siddharth, Shamili, Krishnudu, Napoleon, Sunil, Ali, Master Bharat, Tanikella Bharani, Pradeep Rawat, Surekha Vani, Saptagiri, Rallpalli, 

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Dialogues: Rajasimha
Cinematography: Vijay K Chakravarthy
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Stunts: Ram Lakshman
Art: Rajeevan
Story - screenplay - direction: Anand Ranga
Producer: DVV Danayya
Release date: 3 July 2009

Interesting Facts: https://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/anandranga.html

https://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/interview/siddharth-oy1.html

https://www.filmcompanion.in/interviews/telugu-interview/the-result-of-oy-didnt-affect-me-director-anand-ranga-valentines-day-siddharth-yuvan-shankar-raja

Writing/Direction 

Anand Ranga accepted the failures so we can talk about what works and didn’t work. 

What worked 

Characterizations: opposites attract is probably the most apt way of doing these things as Uday is very simple happy go lucky and outgoing, Sandhya is more idealistic and that contrast is there and is well established especially in the Holi scene. 

Honestly the only point of the movie I liked was to fulfill a person’s wish before their death kind of like make a wish foundation, like Sandhya wants to do all these things and since UDay loves her, he fulfills all her wishes since she knows she’s dying but she doesn’t. 

And songs and technicalities are good. 

What didn’t work 

I’m not sure how this is a cult movie in any regard. First of all the main minus in the movie is heroine character. Why because it’s not convincing at all. Ok she’s going to die but in any love story the way that the couple fall in each other is like the most crucial part and here is neither convincing or emotional at all. Ok Sandhya is supposed to change from idealistic into person who enjoys and sees life with all her wishes fullfiledd but the way she changes and why she likes Siddarth is not convincing at all. 

I dont really like love stories openly saying it. To date the love stories I like are Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana and Sita Ramam. That’s it. Everyone said they cried as a kid and even now they cry what a movie what a beautiful movie, ante do I not know how to watch a movie or do other people dint I really dont know but how this is a cult movie I dont know but movie had no emotion. Movie has no comedy, if it does its all cringe and tested patience. 

Also hero character behaves like an aware. He’s so rich but instead of going to office he goes to heroine house and basically like a beware guy tries to win her over. 

Generally when you had a separate comedy track, it was entertaining. But in this movie he tires to bring Sunil into the main plot and then that entire 2nd half of comedy scenes and even in 1st half with krishnudu and everything else was just cringe max and tested patience. Its not funny one bit. 

Then in 2nd half to bring hero and heroine closer to the each other theres train episode with old married couple, she takes ganja and then threatens him with a. Gun and does some other athi I was like what the fuck is going on. 

Also entire 2nd half is literally Bhramotsavam + Manmadhudhu Cheliya song: they go to north india tour and then by cruise, car, boat, helicopter, and train. Movie just goes somewhere and doesnt return. 

Then finally climax comes and when she says I dont feel like dying right now, I felt nothing due to no emotion. First of all hero character connect kale, heroine connect kale so why would I feel anything. 

Overall, I didn’t feel anything. Its not a bad movie at all. Its a one time watch movie which doesnt have any emotion or anything. If not for the masterpiece songs, nobody would even talk about the movie. 

Direction by Anand Ranga is not good. Besides establishing different personalities in characterization of the leads and having good technical sense, there’s very little to actually appreciate in the movie. 

Music and BGM by Yuvan Shankar Raja is MASTERPIECE. Each and Every song is a CLASSOC!

Credits 

Banner: Just Yellow
Cast: Sashank, Janardhan, Mohit, Abhishek, Narsing Yadav, Sivaji Raja & Sindhu Tolani
Music: Kalyani Malik
Photography: Senthil Kumar

Dialogues: Gunnam Gangaraju 

Editing: Sudhakar Reddy Sathi 

Art Direction: R Ravindar
Producer: Gangaraju Gunna,, Venkat Dega
Story - Screenplay - Direction: Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
Theatrical release date: 11th April 2003

Credits 

Banner: Lakshmi Productions

Cast: Ravi Teja, Sneha, Ashutosh Rana, Raasi (SA), Srinivasa Reddy, Chitram Seenu, Ramchandar, Tanikella Bharani, Delhi Sakuntala, Brahmanandam, AVS, Venu Gopal, Krishna Bhagavan, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Ahuti Prasad, Mallikharjuna Rao, Kaushal, Apoorva, Bharat, Sirisha, Suman (SA)

Dialogues: Kona Venkat

Lyrics: Sahiti

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Cinematography: Prasad Murella 

Art: Narayana Reddy

Stunts: A Vijay

Producer: Atluri Purnachandra Rao

Story - Screenplay - direction: Seenu Vytla

Release date: 26th March 2004

Agenda

1) First Impressions

2) How your liking towards it grew

3) Music, Cinematirapghy, Art Direction, Editing

4) Writing and Direction

5) Why it will always be a classic

Credits

Cast: Gopichand, Tapsee Pannu, Shakthi Kapoor, Suman, Ali, etc

Music: Sri

Camera: Shyam Dutt

Art: S Ramakrishna

Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswararao

Dialogues: K.K. Radha Krisha Kumar

Lyrics: Ananth Sriram

Fights: Selva

Story, screenplay & Direction: Chandra Sekhar Yeleti

Producer: BVSN Prasad

Release date: 12 July 2013

Movie collected 13.5 crores share and while it was a safe project for producer but small loss venture for distributors, everyone who bought the movie had small losses so it can be termed as above average movie. 

Writing/Direction

So this is basically National Treasure + Indiana Jones mixed into one. 

Also add the chandamama kathalu in there which I personally never read but I remember when I was young just hearing about Ali Baba and the 40 thieves open sesame etc it’s all there. 

This is given a India Pakistan border conflict with Hinglaj Devi temple backdrop ate serve as catalyst for the story. 

Why it’s National treasure is granfather or relative goes looking for treasure and leaves a treasure map for others to come find it where a mount Ian of wealth lies. There it was Nicolas Cage and then here it’s gopichand. 

Indiana Jones because of the globetrotting adventure aspect. Here they go from one border to the next but this Indiana Jones is the GOAT of adventure movies, oviisuly the comparisons will be there where hero and villains looking for treasures, huge dive into the final location, hero fights villain and something usually happens where treasure gets lost forever. 

Here they talk about partition but everything about it so well done and makes for an intriguing adventure drama in Indian context. 

The last 45 mins however were very good. Classic adventure movie where hero and villain come down to find the treasure and then have a fight for it. Stakes are brilliantly done and movie ends on a cliffhanger actually. We never see what happens to Gautham and his financial satiation but finally koteeswarudu ayyadu. Also that dialogue sums up his characterization: naaku kaanidhi koti rupailu aina voddu, naadhi annadi adha rupailu kuda voddhulukonu. 

Direction by Yeleti is good. But the villains needed to be written better, the movie needed more entertainment to keep pace consistent which would have helped the movie overall. But due to uneven pacing some parts are really good while others are very slow. I think with a director os his creativity we only expect the best and when it has flaws, we feel a little disappointed. 

Cinematography is by Shyam Dutt is excellent! The movie looks extremely rich and grand and also the color palette is basically brown or white along with blue for night scenes but there’s also red and green and the lighting especially is excellent like the scene where they explain theres a lamp in Sulthan’s house and the light will reflect on it and the same thing happens. Overall it’s a visual wonder  and he did an excellent job in terms of the framing, lighting, and overall color palette. 

Art Direction is MASTERPIECE. Adventure movies are a production designer’s dream and literally all of the sets and props are so good especially the climax all of the levels they created are so well done. The props like the locket, books, bag, diary, keys, Bird statue, everything is so well done. Also the location costing deserves a special mention, The rough terrain of Pakistan is seamlessly blended as Ladakh and you actually believe they’re in Pakistan with all the signs around in Urdu. It’s so well done.